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Using Electricity to Heal

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the frankenstein-approach-to-healing dept.

ganjadude writes to tell us that while the idea of using electricity to heal wounds was first reported 150 years ago by Emil Du Bois-Reymond, modern scientists may have found a way to practically apply this idea. From the article: "The researchers grew layers of mouse cells and larger tissues, such as corneas, in the lab. After 'wounding' these tissues, they applied varying electric fields to them, and found they could accelerate or completely halt the healing process depending on the orientation and strength of the field."

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  1. How to get laid by New Age chicks by bermabloeme · · Score: 5, Insightful
    This creates electric field patterns all over the body.

    A lot of the "New Age" folks say they can see a person's aura. A lot of these "New Age" folks are really hot girls! So, this is what you do: you grab this article and tell them that you believe, now. Let her just start talking about this stuff. Then, complain about some ailment that requires her "healing" touch. Lastly, ask to try it on her.

    Let things progress: touching , kissing, clothes off, etc...

    Enjoy!

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    1. Re:How to get laid by New Age chicks by SteveFoerster · · Score: 5, Insightful

      A lot of the "New Age" folks say they can see a person's aura. A lot of these "New Age" folks are really hot girls! So, this is what you do: you grab this article and tell them that you believe, now. Let her just start talking about this stuff. Then, complain about some ailment that requires her "healing" touch. Lastly, ask to try it on her. Let things progress: touching , kissing, clothes off, etc... Enjoy!

      Only on /. would this get modded "Informative" rather than "Funny".

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  2. Old news by mnmn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Forget about 150 years, down in Texas they use electric chairs to fix up some really sick people.
    And psychiatric wards have been using it to fix up people who were sick in the head in the early half of the century.

    Even the police and mean old ladies use it to fix other people and pets. Them doctors are a little behind.

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  3. forget that by npietraniec · · Score: 5, Funny

    This guy discovered immortality with magnets.

    http://www.alexchiu.com/

    Damn, they even interviewed him on slashdot.

    http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/0 6/07/1421238&mode=nocomment

  4. Awesome by BilZ0r · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's actually quite an awesome paper. It seems that when a wound is made, it makes a low resistance shunt across skin, which normally has a voltage difference across it. This stimulates wound healing activity. The current peaks at 10 microA cm-2 and persisted at 4-8 microA cm-2, with all the current vector pointing towards the wound center. This paper shows not only that that effect is easily demonstrated in vitro, but what are the molecular mediators of it, see the original article here.

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  5. Coming soon to an inbox near you... by Null+Nihils · · Score: 5, Interesting

    While I am fascinated by genuine scientific research into such effects, and interested by the insights into cellular and genetic mechanics described in the article, I shiver to think of how news like this might reverberate across the large communities of pseudo-science loons and snake-oil salesmen that lurk in the dark corners of the Internet.

    " Electr1city curez, as seen |n New Scienti5t m4gazine. G3t electr|cal d3vice, cur3s all d1sease including ere
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